WAR GRAVES IN FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1922, Page 5

WAR GRAVES IN FRANCE.

UNIDENTIFIED DEAD. Ldndon, Jan. 26. It has been decided by the Imperial War Graves Commission that the funds available for the commemoration of the unidentified dead in the Ypres salient shall be devoted to the erection of a memorial gateway on the Menin Road. The names of the soldiers of the Imperial Forces whose bodies have not been identified will therefore be inscribed on the gateway. Sir James Alien, a member of the commission, disagreed with this arrangement for the New Zealand dead, and preferred the system which is to be put into operation generally in the other parts of the battlefields —recording the names in a cemetery near to which the men were known to have fallen. The amount allocated to each of the unidentified is about £5, and this .will be used for carrying out some form of memorial in certain cemeteries in the sabent. After consideration it has been found that the greatest number of unidentified fell in the vicinity of the Tynecote British cemetery at Passchendaele, or in the vicinity of the Butte New British cemetery at Polygon Wood, so these two cemeteries have been chosen wherein to commemorate their names. In the former there will be 1215 and in the latter 356 names. The High Commissioner is in communication with the architect for these cemeteries, and has asked him to suggest a form in which to commemorate the New Zealand unidentified. About £6OOO will be available for this purpose in the Tynecote cemetery, and £lBOO in the Butte de Polygon Wood.